"I now know that you are not the kind of stepmother who has bad intentions towards her stepchildren and will not harm them at all. So I came to ask for your advice. I know that you will not give me any bad advice." Luo Changqing is a politician after all, and he is thick-skinned. After a while, he returned to normal.
Xu Shichu sneered: "Do you think you can come to me if I have no bad intentions? But I don't want to take the blame on myself."
"You don't think that I will be willing to help your daughter just because you say that? Aren't you a little naive?" Xu Shichu said sarcastically.
"Why should I care about your daughter's affairs? If I stand aside and ignore her, she will treat me as if I don't exist and we won't interfere with each other. But if I really give her advice and she achieves her goal, it's fine. But if she doesn't, then she will hate me and think I am deliberately harming her.
"Mr. Prime Minister, why should I do such a thankless task? Why should I ask for trouble, get mixed up in her muddy water, and get covered in dirty water for no reason?"
Luo Changqing was speechless after hearing her words. He frowned and wanted to refute, but reason told him that what Xu Shichu said was reasonable. If she really interfered in her daughter's affairs, it would be fine if it could be resolved perfectly, but if not, not to mention his daughter, even he himself would suspect whether Xu Shichu was doing something malicious on purpose.
It was because he understood this that Luo Changqing couldn't face Xu Shichu's clear eyes. He sighed and said, "I thought it was too simple. You're right. I shouldn't have let you wade into this muddy water."
After all, even he, his own father, felt helpless and annoyed about his daughter's affairs. How could he have the nerve to go to Xu Shichu, his stepmother who had an estranged relationship with his daughter, to give her advice
Xu Shichu nodded. What satisfied her most was that Luo Changqing would take his reputation into consideration. After all, he was a prime minister and had the so-called integrity of a scholar. Even for the sake of reputation, he would not force Xu Shichu or use conspiracy against her.
Although Xu Shichu was not afraid of his revenge out of anger, at least he claimed to be a "gentleman" and would not do so.
As a result, Luo Changqing not only failed to get any advice from Xu Shichu, but also left with a lot of annoyance and resentment.
Luo Yaqing did not understand her father's dilemma and frustration. Instead, she urged her father to make the decision for her even more anxiously.
Xu Shichu didn't care how they dealt with Zhou Wencun's pregnant maid afterwards, but no matter how they dealt with it, Luo Yaqing would definitely not end well.
Although Xu Shichu did not want to gloat over other people's misfortune, but as long as she thought of the suffering the original owner had suffered from Luo Yaqing in her previous life, she felt that Luo Yaqing deserved it.
After Luo Yaqing left her parents' home and returned to Shunyi Palace, Qin Mei found out that she was pregnant. The father and son of the Luo family swept away their previous boredom and bad luck and became beaming with joy. The Luo family had a successor, and there was finally a happy event in their family.
Although Luo Rui gradually saw through his wife's true willful and foolish face, because she was pregnant with his child, he restored some of his original intimacy with her.
"You just got pregnant and it's your first child, so you don't have any experience. You can let your mother-in-law come and accompany you." Luo Rui said to Qin Mei in a rare friendly manner.
Qin Mei was naturally very happy when she heard that she could see her mother, and she quickly agreed: "It just so happens that I miss my mother too, and my mother can come and teach me how to take care of the baby..."
She proudly touched her one-month-old belly, which had no visible curve at all, and felt proud again. She felt that the baby in her belly came at the right time. It immediately changed her father-in-law and husband's previous cold attitude towards her. She was really her lucky star!
She cherished her belly so much that she asked her mother to come to the prime minister's residence to take care of her the day after she found out she was pregnant.
"My daughter, you are finally pregnant!" Qin's mother said in surprise when she saw her daughter lying lazily on the bed as soon as she entered the room.
"Why are you lying in bed? Are you feeling unwell? Why don't you ask a doctor to take a look?" Seeing her lying in bed, Qin's mother asked worriedly, "My dear grandson, please don't let anything happen to him. He is your support for the rest of your life!"
"Mom, I'm fine. I just don't want to go out for a walk. What if I accidentally fall and have a miscarriage?" Qin Mei said very seriously, "It's safer to lie in bed."
When Qin's mother heard this, she poked her daughter's forehead with her finger and said, "Are you stupid? You haven't gone out for just one month and you're lying in bed? Do you want to turn yourself into a pig? Being too fat can easily lead to a difficult birth. If you don't go out and exercise, how can you have the strength to give birth when the time comes?"
Qin Mei knew nothing. She was Qin's mother's last child. When she got married, there was no sister-in-law in the family, so she had no idea how a pregnant woman should spend her pregnancy period. It was no surprise that she made such a big joke.
"Hurry up and get up if you're fine." Mother Qin pulled her daughter's arm and said, "If I hadn't come, I wouldn't know how you would torture yourself like this!"
Qin Mei then slowly got up from the bed and said unwillingly, "How can I exercise anymore? Won't it be hard if my belly is big?"
"Do you think it's easy to get pregnant? You'll suffer more when your belly gets bigger. You're still having the easiest time now." Mother Qin glared at her daughter.
She looked at Qin Mei carefully and found that she didn't look very well, so she frowned and asked, "Why do you look like this? Did the Luo family not take good care of you? Did they make you worry?"
Qin Mei immediately shook her head and said, "No, no, I was just too happy after I found out I was pregnant, and I didn't sleep well last night."
Mother Qin stared at her closely and said, "Don't hide it from me. I know this is not the reason."
Qin Mei could only sigh and no longer hide it: "I'm just worried that now that I'm pregnant, my husband will take a concubine. My daughter and he didn't have a good relationship before, and they had several quarrels. Will he take this opportunity to find other women? Mother, I don't want him to have other women!"
When Mother Qin heard her words, she was not sure, but she still comforted her: "It shouldn't be the case, right? The Luo family doesn't seem to have the tradition of taking concubines. Look, the Prime Minister doesn't even have a concubine now. Luo Rui is his son, so he probably doesn't care much about women."
Qin Mei was still not very happy and said, "Even if he doesn't want to take a concubine, I'm afraid my mother-in-law will give my husband a maid!"
"What's going on? Didn't you say that your stepmother-in-law wouldn't interfere in your affairs?" Qin's mother asked immediately.
"I have offended her before. Who knows if she will take the opportunity to trip me up? Sending a maid to my husband while I am pregnant, isn't this a legitimate excuse to make life difficult for me?" Qin Mei became more and more worried as she spoke.